{"product_id":"5-inch-gauge-britannia-lord-hurcomb-stock-code-8728","title":"5 inch gauge Britannia \"Lord Hurcomb\"","description":"\"Lord Hurcomb\" returns, one of the nicest Britannias I've driven in any scale. A powerful, thoroughly well sorted and devilishly quick locomotive that caught more than one driver out when I took it to the club last time it was with us in 2009 - it needed a careful hand on the regulator to avoid going into curves at highly inappropriate speeds!\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    I originally bought the engine in 2008 - it sold shortly afterwards to a customer of ours who already owned several very good engines. It had occasional use in his hands before coming back to us a year later when he bought a fine 7 1\/4 inch gauge LNER B1 from us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Since then, it has been in the hands of a collector who ran it infrequently. For much of the last ten years it has been stored in a dehumidified plastic inflatable cocoon - the same type as he uses for his classic cars - alongside a B1. It looks virtually identical to when we last had it (if slightly more polished).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    I won't dilate at length here - for more information there's a few hundred words of enthusiastic prose I wrote about the engine last time it was here \u003ca href=\"\/products\/5-inch-gauge-britannia-stock-code-3346\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ein the archive\u003c\/a\u003e, along with pictures and video taken of the engine at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    The pictures opposite were taken this week. The engine has had a boiler test with new certification issued; on the rolling road it runs the same as it always did - mechanically quiet, with the promise of a great deal of go at the end of the regulator.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Station Road Steam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54020018831701,"sku":"8728","price":14750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1023\/0094\/2677\/files\/8728-1.webp?v=1779909626","url":"https:\/\/stationroadsteam.com\/products\/5-inch-gauge-britannia-lord-hurcomb-stock-code-8728","provider":"Station Road Steam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}